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Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

AI model Released

Context window
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
65,536 tokens
Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B 1437.6 Qwen3.5-397B-A17B · 95% interval 1434.5–1440.6 · 97,675 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,498.12 rating

Confidence interval: 1,490.36 – 1,505.87

6888 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,463.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,459.18 – 1,468.57

27540 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,402.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,396.72 – 1,407.73

17395 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,443.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,439.21 – 1,447.19

42806 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,433.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,429.01 – 1,437.14

71392 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,461.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,454.89 – 1,467.99

10502 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,462.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,450.41 – 1,474.82

3179 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,443.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,427.68 – 1,460.02

1516 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,447.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,444.02 – 1,451.24

64295 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,450.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,445.60 – 1,454.85

28678 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,434.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,429.41 – 1,439.70

19379 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,398.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.67 – 1,403.80

22213 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,441.76 rating

Confidence interval: 1,434.34 – 1,449.17

7506 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,457.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,451.64 – 1,462.54

15975 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,453.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,444.97 – 1,461.86

5737 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,455.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,447.60 – 1,462.87

7261 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,462.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,458.33 – 1,466.66

38862 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,415.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,410.32 – 1,419.95

24156 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,423.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.99 – 1,427.67

33498 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,427.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,409.07 – 1,446.27

1227 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,387.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,371.15 – 1,403.12

1641 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,441.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.86 – 1,445.36

42999 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,453.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,445.27 – 1,462.15

5402 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,446.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,440.66 – 1,451.87

15723 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,429.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,425.90 – 1,433.21

54862 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,437.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,434.52 – 1,440.58

97675 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,446.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,432.69 – 1,461.20

1726 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,430.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,424.35 – 1,436.78

11258 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,440.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,429.23 – 1,452.46

3107 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,498.91 rating

Confidence interval: 1,490.97 – 1,506.86

6487 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,464.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,459.69 – 1,469.21

26519 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,401.76 rating

Confidence interval: 1,396.17 – 1,407.36

16543 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,443.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,439.23 – 1,447.31

41306 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,433.25 rating

Confidence interval: 1,429.13 – 1,437.36

68423 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,461.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,454.78 – 1,468.10

10076 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,461.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,448.90 – 1,473.87

3026 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,445.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,429.21 – 1,462.17

1455 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,447.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,444.11 – 1,451.44

61654 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,450.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,445.47 – 1,454.84

27732 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,434.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,429.11 – 1,439.56

18675 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,398.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.01 – 1,403.29

21199 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,440.36 rating

Confidence interval: 1,432.81 – 1,447.92

7182 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,456.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,451.01 – 1,462.08

15315 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,453.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,444.78 – 1,462.01

5472 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,454.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,446.45 – 1,462.00

6965 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,463.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,458.97 – 1,467.42

37377 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,415.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,410.28 – 1,420.07

23093 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,423.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.71 – 1,427.54

31992 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,428.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,409.33 – 1,448.06

1136 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,382.68 rating

Confidence interval: 1,366.39 – 1,398.97

1570 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,441.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,437.34 – 1,445.97

41250 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,453.59 rating

Confidence interval: 1,444.97 – 1,462.21

5146 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,446.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,440.55 – 1,451.91

15114 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,429.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,425.99 – 1,433.41

52251 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,437.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,434.65 – 1,440.79

93567 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,448.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,433.99 – 1,463.04

1665 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,429.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,422.98 – 1,435.64

10715 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

1,440.53 rating

Confidence interval: 1,428.65 – 1,452.41

2935 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

751.4 GiB checkpoint tensor payload · 403.40 B stored tensor elements · BF16/F32

Stored tensors can include buffers and repeated shared weights. A verified unique parameter count is unavailable. Checkpoint size is not the memory required to run the model.

API cost

USD / month

Standard text-token estimate. Excludes taxes, caching, batch discounts, reasoning and multimodal surcharges. Provider limits and regional availability may differ.

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B / Pricing tiers 1
Provider / scopeRateCurrencyAmount / unit
DeepInfraQwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17BStandard Cached inputUSD0.22 / 1M tokens
InputUSD0.45 / 1M tokens
OutputUSD3 / 1M tokens

Capabilities

Context window
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
65,536 tokens
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Checkpoint tensor payload
751.39 GiB

Input modalities

  • text
  • image
  • video

Output modalities

  • text

Processing & platform

Architecture
qwen3_5_moe